3709931 Dutch Ships Ramming Spanish Galleys of the English Coast, 3 October 1602, 1617 (oil on canvas) by Vroom, Hendrick Cornelisz. (1566-1640); 118x151 cm; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; (add.info.: The Battle of the Narrow Seas, Goodwin Sands or Dover Straits was a naval engagement during the Anglo-Spanish War of 1585-1604 and part of the Dutch Revolt. An English fleet attacked Spanish galleys all the way to the Spanish Netherlands, joined by a Dutch fleet under Jan Adriaanszoon Cant The Eighty Years\' War was an armed revolt under the leadership of Protestant William of Orange when the Dutch struggled to gain independence from Spanish rule under the Catholic Philip II. ); Dutch, out of copyright.